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I'd be interested to get your input on the mass distribution of TP cards. Originally Tournament Packs were for the lone purpose of attracting players to sanctioned tournaments and even more, to hobby stores that put forth the time and effort to put together santioned tournaments with sanctioned judges and register their store as a location to find orginized play.

These days mass distribution has begun of tournament packs as bait to purchase old series cards and packaged with other items as "bait" Originally it was agaist UDE policy for store owners or anyone else to sell tournament packs. It made attending sanctioned tournaments special.

I'll grant that the latest TP set is not packaged at this time. I feel though that even offering the older sets cheapens them and takes away a draw for orginized and sanctioned play that many of us have worked so hard to maintain.

So what's your view? While I'm all for putting previously difficult cards to get in structure decks I feel SOMETHING should have a unique draw toward sanctioned tournaments, this seemed to be all that was left.
 
I agree. I am of the opinion that tournament packs should be released ONCE, during one tournament / series / what-have-you, and then that's it. No more of those cards. Now, I support later distributing them in reprints, but with a different code thingy, as per DB2. That way, the original cards can be distinguished from the cheaper ones.
-pssvr
 
well as we all know the hobby leagues are now getting their new kits which include a few parrallel rares.

a friend of mine told me it was a Cyber Jar, but i think thats way off, even for a HL promo.
 
How would you call that way off??? It has already been made official a couple of weeks ago that the December Hobby League kit will include the Parallel Rare Cyber Jar.

As for the TP Packs, I would rather see something closer to Premium Packs where we pay a premium price for the pack and get all of the cards that are in that Premium Pack set. Thats just my opinion.
 
I'd really love to see that. There comes a point where I'd happily fork over the cash to get 1 of each instead of 14 of each crappy common and still be searching high and low for the 2 or 3 cards I need to complete the @$)(*& set.

I too have to say I was sorry to see the TP cards on store shelves. After all the posturing UDE has done lately about supporting the Hobby shops, it seemed like a real slap in the face to let Walmart sell the one thing that could only be picked up by participating in a tournament. They already get the structure decks well in advance, the boosters well in advance, and I'm sure due to the volume discounts Walmart commands they are making more profit as well.

Now, what would have been nice is seeing TP Secret or Ultimate Rares sent as prize cards. I could see tournament attendance going way up if it were advertised UDE had sent a Royal Decree TP4 or TP6 out to use as a grand prize to the TO.
 
dude thats a cry in shame.

this is a parrallel rare.

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Tournament Packs arent as special any more, especially since many Stores arent giving them out.

It goes back to Store Owners and Tournament Organizers not allowing players to use newly released cards. If everyone doesnt have equal access to them, why shouldn't they be for sale?

You can buy them on eBay without being a Store Owner.
 
If I remember correctly I saw a Tournament Pack for sale at EPCOT Center. Come to think of it, I saw everything Yu-Gi-Oh! makes in both english adn japanese at EPCOT Center.
 
Well for one, a lot of people, myself included do not or are not able to attend tournies in order to get these TP packs. The packs themselves did not offer a good enough draw. Before we need them and a loan from the bank in order to buy Mechanical Chaser and Royal Decree and Morphing Jar. Now they were reprinted, which makes them cheaper. I for one do not want to waste a ton of money to enter a tourney, just to be able to get TP packs that I will spend a good money on in order to get the cards I want. I rather be able to buy them from Walmart and have my fair share at the rares, new rares.
 
Well, I'm sorry my shame made you cry. *wipes away tears* <sappy, strange, motherly voice> Don't cry... *slight sob* Please don't cry... Whatever you do... don't... cry... *breaks off into pitiful moaning* </sappy, strange, motherly voice>
Ahem. In defense of myself, that is what people in my parts call a "Fake secret rare" although it is not technically fake. Just so badly done, it looks fake o_0. But I guess you guys are saying that is intentional?
-pssvr
 
No biggy to me, the local TO only ever actually used them as prize support on the rare occasion when a UDE staff member was present, the rest of the time he was selling them. This has certainly been the case for ~ a year and a half at least.
 
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Which he is NOT suppose to be doing. Selling the new series of TP cards should be reported to UDE.
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Which I repeatedly said to people and was ignored, even mentioned that I knew of a TO doing such to Raymond Fong (UDE rep for UK & Eire) during an e-mail discussion on another topic with him and he didn't seem bothered (or at least didn't try to get a name from me).
I think this in a way ties in with the whole no SP promo cards for Europe thing, UDE really just don't give a toss about Europe beyond the basic stock sales.
Sure the "Official Supplier" they tell us to buy from in TO newsletters is one of the most expensive on-line stockists in Britain, I buy much cheaper from others.

As I've said before we don't register our decks here at the start of the tournaments and TO's are allow make decisions on the number of rounds in the middle of the tournament, whether a set is legal or not just before it starts (thereby leaving players to play at a disadvantage or else buy more stuff from the TO).
Heck at the sneak peak for the "sealed deck" he ran it as some sort of strange hybrid:
In a Sealed Deck tournament, players open packs and build their Decks with cards from those packs. In a Booster Draft tournament, players open packs, select a card from each, and pass the packs around the table, selecting one card from each pack until all the cards have been selected.
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as he encouraged players to swap cards as they wish, yet they were allowed keep all the cards they didn't wish to swap (again only announced as the tournament started).
Then there are a number of people he's banned for stealing but he hasn't reported even one of them to UDE for an official banning.
We seem to pretty much be the UDE equivalent of the wild west...
 
I was a little excited and a little depressed to see the TPs in "bulk" format. I understood the idea of releasing some of the "oldies" through the DB2 series to help balance things out, but given the current meta, I think the most "coveted" card of them all, Royal Decree, now isn't all that hot.

While I'm all in favor of keeping a balance to the game so that the "uber dedicated" aren't the only ones with the most powerful cards in the game, making things completely accessible from day one seems like a step in the wrong direction and I think the mass release of the TPs are starting to do that.
 
It doesn't bother me too much... It bothers me, granted, but... it is how I got my Big Shield Gardna. :D And one of my friends got a Magical Thorn as well. I'm just imagining those who are pulling Royal Decrees at Wal Marts.

I just don't like how they're a tad overpriced. And it does actually take a lot away from the uniqueness of Tournament Packs. Now they're kind of like "Tournament-turned-Retail Packs"...
 
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